In the book Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, Dweck focuses on the different mindsets specifically growth and fixed mindsets. The novel is set up by short stories and examples of different people and their experiences in real life situations that allow you as the reader to feel connected and reflective on your own life and the way you think weather it be fixed or growth mindset, all while showing you how to restructure that mindset and open it up to new ideas and ways of going about life in general. Dweck uses each chapter as a platform of a main idea breaking into subchapters that focus on specific examples with detailed content.
My first theory I chose was the view of Intelligence and motivation specifically growth mindset vs. fixed mindset. In this section we learned the differences between a person with a fixed mindset and a growth mindset and the ways in which people with these varying mindsets learn and go about life. A growth mindset is one in which people strive to have but may not be wired in such a way. People with growth mindsets are always challenging themselves to not only do better but to
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Thinking about my own day to day challenges I may face I can honestly say there are times I find myself taking the easy way out where I should have tried to further my knowledge and expand my learning. Taking the time to understand and change the way you think to an overall positive big picture way I believe will help you in the long run and personally I know I need to work on that myself.
The second theory I thought fit of the topics illustrated in the book Mindset, is Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs with a focus on self-actualization. This theory explains how an individual must go through Maslow’s Hierarchy in order to live a fulfilled life ending with self-actualization where one will experience full fulfillment and all needs met in